What Is Laughing Squid?

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photo of the Doggie Diner Dog Heads by Scott Beale

Here’s a bit more on what Laughing Squid is all about, beyond what is in our FAQ, on Wikipedia and what has been written about us. People often mention that they’ve heard of Laughing Squid, but don’t really know what it is that we actually do, so hopefully this will give a better idea. Here’s our short description:

Laughing Squid is a blog featuring interesting art, culture & technology as well as a cloud-based web hosting company.

Laughing Squid was founded on November 16th, 1995 in San Francisco by Scott Beale as a film and video production company, producing documentaries on the surrealist painter Alonso Smith and The Cacophony Society’s Portland Santacon ’96 event. In 1996 Laughing Squid launched The Squid List and for a while Laughing Squid offered publicity and web design services, but then started focusing on web hosting in 1998. In 2000 John Law joined as a partner in Laughing Squid as head of “special projects”, followed by David Klass, joining as evangelist-at-large.

Here a few things that Laughing Squid currently does and has done in the past:

For those of you curious as to where the name “Laughing Squid” came from, here the story of its origin.

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